Section: New Software and Platforms

SOFA

Participants : Hervé Delingette [correspondent] , Federico Spadoni, Stéphanie Marchesseau, Hugo Talbot, Sophie Giffard-Roisin, Roch-Philippe Mollero.

SOFA is an Open Source framework primarily targeted at real-time simulation, with an emphasis on medical simulation. It is mostly intended for the research community to help develop new algorithms, but can also be used as an efficient prototyping tool. Based on an advanced software architecture, it allows : the creation of complex and evolving simulations by combining new algorithms with algorithms already included in SOFA; the modification of most parameters of the simulation (deformable behavior, surface representation, solver, constraints, collision algorithm, etc. ) by simply editing an XML file; the building of complex models from simpler ones using a scene-graph description; the efficient simulation of the dynamics of interacting objects using abstract equation solvers; the reuse and easy comparison of a variety of available methods. It was developed mainly by the Inria team projects Shacra, Evasion and Asclepios.

See also the web page http://www.sofa-framework.org/ .

• ACM: J.2 Physics, J.3 LIFE AND MEDICAL SCIENCES

• Software benefit:- Simulation of the human body

• License: LGPL

• Type of human computer interaction: console, opengl, qt

• OS/Middelware: linux, windows, mac

• Required library or software: Qt - GPL - GLEW - BSD/MIT - Tinyxml - zlib

• Programming language: C/C++

• Documentation: - each function of the core API and each class in the SOFA modules - doxygen

• ACM: J.3

• Programming language: C/C++